They should really make a part 2 with a huge graphic update

I remember playing this as a kid before I had any idea what an mmo actually was, I remember just the character creation blew me away

This is the only game I've EVER restarted like 5 - 10 different times, and wasn't bored at any point. But man, after level 30, the game really went from 0 - 100.

2013 was peak. The pvp was so fun. Stepping outside the station or club to a giant brawl. Heroes or villains lining up across the street to kick off the brawl in the first place. So good. Edit** just to share a memorable moment like everyone else, I remember as a hero I stepped out into a brawl. I got one win then took off but next thing I know I see a little red blip behind me. It was a dude dressed like Professor Zoom and he chased me all over metropolis before finally killing me lol. So fun.

Will forever have a special place in my heart, been playing on and off since it came out and never skipped to level 30 always enjoyed replaying those missions.

Its a game worth playing but they really need to listen to the community more and engage with the players more. Theres alot of really insanely good suggestions for the game that would improve a ton of its content and replayability but the devs dont really listen as often compared to other games.

Having those 20v20 villains vs heroes pvp was the stuff man those days used to got me having the most fun

I remember sinking so many hours on it on the ps3. Was in High School. Good times.

I'm not going to lie, I really miss this game but playing it as an adult doesn't hit the same. I was there the year it came out and was never able to get any of the paid content, I remember a few years later when I was able to pay for content I finally got the green lantern power set. As a kid I was amazed by it all, so amazed that I didn't even know there was content beyond level 30. I would just play the story and since everything else was impossible for me to do due to difficulty, I just would roam around or start a new character. Years later as I got smarter I realized how to actually access the content and had a blast all over again. I personally feel like DCUO is just too changed for me, I've revisited a couple times here and there and it just feels like I was left behind in a way. I remember the skill trees and kinda preferred them as they felt easier to separate things. I feel like if I start over again I'd be able to get back into it, but I just don't really have the time like I used to. I still have my old characters but so much has changed that I feel like it's hard to just jump in the middle of things rather than easing my way into it with a new character. DCUO will always have a place in my heart and I hope it goes strong for 12 more years.

I remember I was 14 when this came out. I loved just roaming the open world when I was bored while I listened to some music. The movement abilities made getting around so fun

I remember waiting for this game to come out when I was a kid, the first 4 years where an unforgettable gaming experience.

been playing almost every day since day 1. the only game i still play.

It wasn't always free to play. In fact when it first came out, I had it on disk and paid $59.99 for it.

Final fantasy 14. Solves your level problem by automatically syncing everyone to the max power rating for a particular dungeon. It allows The players who are higher combat rating to come down and play with the lower combat rated players while not making them weak per se. But they also can't just hard carry. You still have to execute mechanics. And then they have unsinked where you can just go in and bulldoze some content but really not all The system has really allowed final fantasy 14 to bring in new players to do all the content in the game while keeping the older players doing their content and still mixing the two different groups together without stifling one or holding back the other. It's very ingenious

Best part of the past was when everyone was in pvp server. The wars were legendary

I have some great memories with this game. I haven’t come back in a while (last time really active was 2012-2014) but such a fun game and a wonderful celebration of my favorite comics. One of my favorite memories with DCUO was when I was raiding in 2012 and some of the guys I was raiding with invited me to their league. I joined and then it turned out it was an all-black league and they thought I was black too, but let me stay because I was chill and pretty good at heals and controller. I stayed with that league until it went mostly inactive a year or so later, but I’m still Facebook friends with a few of the dudes from it.

Love this game, really would like to see it get a much needed update!

I think that DC should redirect focus from their films to put the stories in a revamped DCUO

This game still going? Thats awesome! I played from launch until Halls of Power I think. It was so much fun playing w a league and doing difficult dungeons and raids ❤ duos and Alerts 😊 I hopped on like a month ago and my heros skill points were gone! There were people still playing not as many as before. The villain side was empty

This bring back memories when I didn't even know what mmo was. I played injustice a lot, watched a lot of superhero movies, and came across DC Universe. The game was phenomenal. Unfortunately last time I tried to revisit the game was nearly dead. Haven't played the game ever since then which was years ago

I do miss playing this game I won’t lie. I mainly played during my middle school-high school days on console so about 5-6ish years and would grind for so many hours. Wouldn’t be surprised if I had over a thousand hours on the game. Since then however I’ve switched over to pc gaming and just haven’t found it in me to start all over again , I’m really sad that you can’t bring your save data from console to pc. I completely understand why that is, but damn I do miss this game from time to time and try it out again every now and then for about a week or so before I drop it again because it just isn’t the same for me anymore.

Best movement in a game I have ever seen. People release all these game with endless possibilities, but the characters run and take horses everywhere. Super flight and super speed was so awesome and fun. Customization was awesome too.

Reminds me of the Bakugan online universe back in the day, you would buy Bakugan and you’ll be able to peel off a little code and transfer them to the online universe and be able to battle other people from around the world, tournaments, missions etc

12 years ago and I’m watching this video 12 days later

Still play to this day. This game always has a spot in my heart❤

If they have a massive update such as the graphics story different areas this game would be on top

Love the nostalgia played of and on from about 2013-2018 pretty consistent just to much has changed though to keep up with it

“Argh! The paaaaain!…. Just don’t tell Bane I told you…”

I was really enjoying this video, seeing the clips from back then and can't believe it's been that long. Then suddenly I see myself fighting that damn exploiter. None the less much love awesome video hopefully the devs looks at this and makes some viable changes ❤️❤️❤️

This is still my favorite game of all time, no game has fill the hole that this game left for me since they nerfed jump cancelling/clipping and introduced weapon mastery. I did not really care for weapon mastery, it was just removing jump cancelling that made dpsing not as fun and competitive anymore. I was able to do so much different combos with jump cancelling with multiple different powers(especially HL). But, as a whole its probably the best game ever created or top 5. I legit made real life money on this game from farming exobits and selling mods for gear. You really could do it all in this game!!

Played this game for years. So many great memories and experiences. Part of one of the popular guilds, Game of Thrones, saw the rewards of the highest spenders, so many dungeon runs. The feeling of being behind or not being able to access the paid parts of the game really hurt my heart. Would love to see it graphically modernized

Great news is before the end of the year it’s getting very a big Next Gen update with graphics and gameplay upgrades. Can’t wait to hop back on, I love always hopping back on during the Xmas season, love Metropolis and Gotham with all the snow,music, and decorations.

Bring back City of Heroes but with modern graphics and a better engine.

16:49 Thank you for including my gameplay, I recognize my character and my play style. I am TheRed H00D. Thanks again after many years later Also to add, controllers not only helps give power, but they ALSO are responsible for debuffs. The controller I have for gadgets is made specifically to debuff their defense, their healing ability and their attacks. So as I was fighting Doomsday, I had to evade, run around the back areas and give power and rotate skills to continue the debuffs, otherwise the boss will end up 1 shotting everyone during long periods. Our responsibility is to try to get the boss bleed faster

it's been a few years since i've played, the part i had an issue with back when i played which they might have changed by now was needed the membership to get access to all your money. I remember without a membership you only got access to like 2,000 of your money on top of the pay wall for missions you mentioned in the video

A core memory from my childhood was every villain including myself grouping up and camping the police station (hero spawn) and just starting an absolute war

This game need a total overhaul in graphics character customization game dynamics

I started playing around September 2012. I didn't work the whole 2013 yr. I was so addicted and woke up and slept dcu. The funniest time of my life gaming. On Thursdays the game rest the tokens to get new gear. On Thursday everyone was on the game grinding. It took 5 hours to beat everything on all dlc because rallys were rolling fast with experienced players. The community the unity the alliances were very competitive and fun. When they made it available to. Rest missions that gave tokens for gear for money. I knew it was dying

I remember playing on PS3 years ago. I completed the story for all 6 mentors, and did some raids. I remember you couldn't get trophies unless you paid for the premium, but 1 month of that and all the trophies would get awarded.

having really good memories playing this game when I was younger only to hear I only played the tutorial lmao

Imagine a AAA superhero game (that's not an MMO) where you could create your own superhero with a dope ass story that had a separate online mode

I remember playing this game not too much but it was fun to mess around with! I was a shapeshifter and could transform into a werewolf who had superspeed or some other creature that could fly. Was awesome!

brings me memories, i remember playing it but stopping because it was getting big and i had other games to play. my dream is for a dc game like this but offline. maybe even with less pretty graphics so they can work more on other aspects of the game. i never interacted much with the community, i only played i think one raid or something it had to do with wonder woman i think. loved Being a speedster, and remember wanting to use electric powers but i had to pay for it. i don't even remember my level anymore just that was hard to level up.

I played it few times, Its fun-ish, Problem is with Speedsters, they still feel slow, wish one day they feel like actual ones

The devs are out of touch with the community games almost done for sure they just milking folks

i remember my dad used to play this and i had no idea what he was doing

They should make it so that you can only boost a character's CR to as high as your highest character to prevent new players from skipping to end game content and allowing old players to create alts without having to grind back to the CR. They can also add a CR cap for old content so that newer players can still enjoy old raids and alerts without being boosted by end game players

I have never reached endgame. I just do the grind to level 30 then start over or repeat missions with my levelled up character. I've always played solo. When people ask me to join them I turn them down. So endgame would be pretty useless for me if I can't solo it.

Yeah, the community killed it for me. Had a group of people adopt me as i was stuck grinding end game on my own. they got me to tier 3 gear and could finally start tier 3 raids. As soon as i entered that raid, the leader saw me wearing T3 gear, started bitching and moaning about it till everyone voted to kick me.

I aint see this in such a long time bruh i remember how much i loved the game it was like having a dream come true playing this

i loved this game i spent so much time on character creation and replayed it like 20 times

We haven’t got no new powers for some time now

I know Im gonna get pissed and bored, like I always do when I reinstall this game, but your review, sadly, has me about to boot it up again

They need to add scaling to the game so all content can be at least a bit challenging, and thus fun. Once they have that out of the way, they can move forward with dailies like GW2 or FF14 where you do lower level dungeons or events to get good rewards. This same strategy can be used for weekly objectives that grant bigger rewards. Doing this keeps the player base more active and makes old content current again, thus making a much better experience for new player as well.

This video took me through a road down memory lane. I played back in 2012 (when I was 12) and was on and off with it until 2018. I've seen its biggest highs (for me it was when Nexus/paradox was released and the entire game was buggy as hell with hacks) and its lowest lows (maybe around that first Themyscira DLC that made every boss insanely tanky instead of intuitive). Thanks for this video!! I wish the game didn't go through micro-transaction hell or I would still be there to this day now that I'm 24.

They need to make a marvel universe online

Been waiting for them to make it actuslly free. Id gladly come back. But not paying 15 a mo for a 15 year old game

Completely forgot about this game and I’m very happy I found it again.

I think the only way I could find myself or my friends coming back to this ever again is if they release a "classic" version where it only goes to up to the fortress of solitude 3 and batcave brother eye raid (marks of krypton, if you're old enough to remember that). They would bank on nostalgia alone and cosmetics. Of course patch the marks vendor glitch where you sell the gear for marks and buy them back with cash (LOL).

Super speed is the best movement in content just don’t go full speed in hall ways

This is definitely a throwback! I made many friends and went through drama with a league I once created 40 players strong eventually it died out on me but great memories! Don’t regret playing,I started to play again when covid was around on ps tried to transfer from pc but that didn’t work! So I grinded and got better with sp and cr ! And had 5 artifacts maxed great game love the mechanics but the new player base sucks nothing like 7-10 years ago

Loved this game back in the day. Open world pvp human hunting while they did the open world missions was awesome. They killed it for me and my friends when they went away from the Rock Paper scissor formula for pvp. Healers vs tanks vs Controllers. After that seemed liked everone just did DPS and roles died. If they made a DCUO 2. Id be back in a heart beat

I used to love playing this as a huge fan of mmos, the game as a core was extremely fun and engaging for me. That being said the amount of mtx and lootboxes was definitely a let down to me the more I played. The moment that made me say OK it's time to move on was 1 day I was sitting in the main hub queued for s mission I needed done and asking in chat for people to come and it was about 6 hours later still no queue pop-up.. barely any1 wanted to run it once and i was like "am I really sitting here in a queue and asking in chat for 6 hours for 1 single mission? Player base was just so low it killed any motivation to continue playing and that was the last day I logged in. That was like 3-4 years ago.. I can only imagine what it's like now.

Literally met my wife through this game it’s actually insane

Is DC Online still active, is WOW still active, is LOTRO still active?

Super speed will always be the goat to me. Chose it most times and never regretted it haha, though I never made it anywhere near late game I don't think. Enjoyed this game a lot for quite a while though, good times.

Dc universe was a recipe for greatness

pretty good gameplay, especially for the time it released, I literally fought a GM in this game in PVP way back when

DCUO also went free-to-play just after City of Heroes went down due to legal issues. It picked up a lot of that playerbase under the idea that it wouldn't fail for the same reason (since CoH was sued by Marvel and DC was just as large at the time) while offering something that might scratch the "custom superhuman MMO" itch.

City of heroes 2.0, just a solid game all around.

Tank: is flight. Me: Superspeed Also me: gets to the adds first

God i really miss playing this game on PS3. I was popular too. I remember those days when i get back from work and logged in. Everyone recognized me. Those were the days... i also miss playing old gen GTA online. I wish the servers would come back on, but that will never happen. 😥

Dcuo was goated

Definitely loved this game, but after level 30 it got insanely difficult to progress organically without paying for it.

Imagine playing it when I was 13 now being 23 dam

They really do need to create another one or atleast do a massive update. I remember restarting after a long time and being so confused that the starting mission changed lol.

Pvp been broken forever

I love playing this game at one time, it's still one of my top 5 favorite games of all time. Because the 100% voice over is amazing, I would still play this game now a days. If it was not for all the bots and gold sells in game, that is why I left the game and I was their from day one.

I agree so much with the on duty tab. I have no idea what to do or what I need

Wait this game is still going?! I remember playing it a ton I got that Batman power armor set at the end game. The active combat and customization was insane.

City Of Heroes is a far superior game. Far more powers and variety to choose from from the very beginning.

Been playing this on and off over the last decade. I’m hoping with the next gen updates for consoles we’re also going to see a new intro campaigns, maybe that focuses less on the whole Brainac angle and more on other parts of the DCU.

Me and like 8 of my cousins played this back in the day! Was insane!!

This game was doomed to fail from the moment they tied skillpoints to time capsules. One cannot afford to make a break if one intends to reach max skillpoints at some time in the future without selling a kidney. Stay away from this game unless u dont mind not being able to play a maxed out Charakter.

My problem with DCUO from a beginner perspective is that DCUO is not beginner friendly game. -The community is very toxic and wont help you. Mechanics like the scoreboard thing dont help with toxicity either.(epeen measuring contest) -When you join group based content, its automatically assumed that you are an expert of said content. If not you get abused. -The feat/skill point system is very daunting and off putting for a new player. -The in-games economy is beyond awful. Everything you want costs gazillions. -Gearing is overly obnoxious in DCUO. You have to worry about your CR gear, mods, artifacts, trinkets and maintaining your base for stats... This could have been streamlined to just CR Gear and Artifacts.

"Going Strong" is a stretch. It is surviving with updates though.

One of my favorite childhood gems

12 years later an it still sucks....

The audio is driving me nutz!!!!!! yes great game, good day!

i remember playing the dual pistols on release and there was a combo that was broken for pvp. good times

i had no idea this game was still going i remember when it came out

Man I would love modern version of this but with Marvel. Who would be mentors? Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Doctor Strange? Loki, Dr Doom, Kingpin, Red Skull?

bro , when the game released i had just gotten my first xbox 360, I'm 11 years old, life is good I'm grinding missions, grinding levels , and PvPing when I had the chance. I must of thrown 3000+ hrs cause I played this day and nite.

Definitely a nostalgic game for me. I'd say the lack of financial support behind the game (investment wise) and some of the games systems are its real issues. Huge one is the toxic community latching onto some of it like hawks. Feats like you brought up are a mix of relevant and awful tedious time consuming things. Like some feats are for beating a raid in a certain amount of time or specific actions in battle, some are collecting random drops around the open world maps for dozens upon dozens of hours or buying them for super inflated amounts thanks to a money glitch that happened super early in the games life. Why that's a problem for toxic players? The skill point/ feat system being more impactful on stats gave people free reign to complain about other players even after the mission was completed successfully. Nothing was more miserable than hearing DPS or trolls arguing over who didn't have enough feat points to clear the raid were were in (even though the issue was the raid being days old and people not knowing the mechanics well enough yet.) or arguing over the scoreboard AFTER we cleared a few bosses. _______ I played from about T4 being the end game {like just before they introduced the t4.5 content that was open world and crashing people's ps3s lol, and back when the loot you earned was fully voted on and random and then when everyone got loot but it wasn't attuned to your role and not tradeable lmao), and playing through the original T5 content (The original Nexus and Paradox waver were... a lot lol).} I'd say the peaks of the game were around original T5 (pre-nerf nexus) and then Amazonian fury 2. (I haven't played newer raids but man Halls of Hades with cerberus just running around one shotting people, the labyrinth and throne were some of my favorite raids in game, hands down - This was however after their team got downsized and they had already shifted to the weird model of raids being every other DLC.) A lot of the unfavorable changes to the game are the super limited budgets given to the team, along with the game being treated more like successful gacha games launched after. Halls of Power 2 is more or less when everyone I knew stopped playing for destiny 2 or other MMO's. The content was a bit kind of questionable imo, wasn't a fan of that dlc's version of throne of death either. Im tempted to go back and try the game, but it seems like they are more interested in being a money pit.

12 years later it still just amounts to people hanging in front of Little Bohemia PD doing nothibg

I have played the game on and off basically since release and .. even to this day want to still play it but, finding people to do so with is so difficult. I practically "abandoned" my main character, mainly cause I wanted a fresh experience etc. and having to do instances with a CR of I think below 150, it's basically impossible to find people for that

This game needs to win some award for longest running mmo that has never added actual new player animations

Even now, this game has so much potential. As an MMO, it's not bad at all IMO

They should have a TP special animation atleast to make it more appealing and smooth transition as you move to game maps

I replayed this game like 20 times because after I got lv 30 on a character I just felt... lost. I was useless in the hardest dungeons but in the firsts one there wasn´t anyone playing so I had to wait for like 5-10 min just to start one.